Comment on AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert

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• taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because it is currently the most advanced way to pretend you are doing age verification when really you aren’t that is available on the market.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How about this: scan your state issued ID. My license has a barcode, and bars already scan it, so it’s a solved problem, no AI needed. The process should essentially be:

    1. scan license
    2. snap picture of face
    3. send to police for lookup - needed to verify you’re not a felon or whatever, there’s more to it than just age verification
    4. accept or reject transaction

    The only AI that needs to exist would be at the local precinct, and used for related ID verification checks.

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But that is boring, that might actually solve the problem and doesn’t have any hype keywords to get anyone to overvalue your company and buy it.

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    • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I dont understand 3. That’s AI or you’re waiting 6 months before 4

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• Starbuck@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Things like this are literally just so that there is a test case to make it up to the Supreme Court. They do something ridiculous that obviously violates the intent of the law but mostly stays inside the letter of the law, in hopes that the Supreme Court will take it up and overturn the law. So, yes, the fact that the vending machine can technically sell bullets to minors is a feature, not a bug. Why is their endgame getting rid of age restrictions for firearms and ammunition? You’d have to ask the death cult themselves about that one.

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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because AI is racist and the US never developed gun laws until a bunch of black folks in California and decided to use their rights

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